Countdown to Halloween
In the Mouth of Madness
- Thu, Oct 1
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 95 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1995
Starring: David Warner, John Glover, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Neill
Do you read Sutter Cane?
One of horror master John Carpenter's best films outside of the 1980s, this prophetic Lovecraftian mind-bender is a nightmarish mystery that draws you into parallel universes of horror.
Creepshow
- Fri, Oct 2
Director: George A. Romero Run Time: 120 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1982
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Carrie Nye, Fritz Weaver, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, Tom Atkins
Horror titans Stephen King and George Romero team up for the ultimate 80s horror anthology just in time to give you the creeps for the whole month of October!
Train to Busan
- Fri, Oct 2
Director: Yeon Sang-ho Run Time: 118 min. Format: 4K Digital Release Year: 2016 Language: Korean with English subtitles
Starring: Choi Woo-shik, Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Su-an, Ma Dong-seok
One of the most well-rounded of all zombie flicks, Train to Busan is a genre-bending high-octane undead thrill ride with a supersized heart, realistic characters, and a delicious spread of social commentary.
Tenth Anniversary Screening! New 4K Restoration!
Theater of Blood
- Sat, Oct 3
Director: Douglas Hickox Run Time: 104 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1973
Starring: Coral Browne, Diana Rigg, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Vincent Price
Is it even spooky season if you're not spending it with Vincent Price unaliving his critics with Shakespearean twists?
The Uninvited
- Sun, Oct 4
Director: Lewis Allen Run Time: 99 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1944
Starring: Alan Napier, Donald Crisp, Gail Russell, Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey
If your spooky season plans call for a haunted house and a ghostly love story, do yourself a favor and join us for one of the best horror films of the 1940s and one of the great ghost stories of all time.
Carnival of Souls
- Mon, Oct 5
Director: Herk Harvey Run Time: 78 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1962
Starring: Art Ellison, Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger
Lose yourself in the surreal nightmare world of Herk Harvey's indie horror masterpiece Carnival of Souls.
28 Days Later
- Fri, Oct 9
Director: Danny Boyle Run Time: 113 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2002
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Naomie Harris
Danny Boyle breathes new life into the world of the undead with this gritty, frenetic, and fantastically bloody journey through a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic UK.
Pulse
- Sat, Oct 10
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Run Time: 119 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki, Kumiko Aso, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s shattering masterpiece from 2001 is beyond liminality, beyond dimension, giving us a despair and isolation decades ahead of its time.
The Rental
- Tue, Oct 13
Director: Dave Franco Run Time: 88 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2020
Starring: Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, Sheila Vand, Toby Huss
Vidiots is dying to welcome writer/director Dave Franco and special guests for a long overdue theatrical screening of his sinister thriller The Rental.
Candyman
- Wed, Oct 14
Director: Bernard Rose Run Time: 100 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1992
Starring: Kasi Lemmons, Tony Todd, Vanessa Williams, Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley
Let the hypnotic Philip Glass score draw you into a haunting and menacing nightmare about gentrification and systemic racism, perfectly helmed by Tony Todd's iconic performance.
Outpost
- Thu, Oct 15
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: Joe Lo Truglio Run Time: 84 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2023
Starring: Ato Essandoh, Becky Ann Baker, Beth Dover, Dallas Roberts, Dylan Baker
Join us in the microcinema for Joe Lo Truglio's nail-biting nightmare of the darkness that lurks in the woods and inside us.
With writer/director Joe Lo Truglio in person for the October 15th screening!
The Witches of Eastwick
- Thu, Oct 15
Director: George Miller Run Time: 118 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1987
Starring: Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, Veronica Cartwright
With an iconic cast, fiercely funny dialogue, and tons of witchy fun, you'll want to gather up your coven and get ready for all the sexy and savage sorcery!
Videodrome
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 88 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1983
Starring: Debbie Harry, James Woods, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorsky, Sonja Smits
We're celebrating Video Store Day with horror maestro David Cronenberg's VCR-centric classic Videodrome!
A viscerally disturbing treatise on voyeurism, sleaze, and the pursuit of the deepest of underground entertainment.
Bones on 35mm
- Wed, Oct 21
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson Run Time: 96 min. Format: 35mm Film Rating: R Release Year: 2001
Starring: Bianca Lawson, Khalil Kain, Michael T. Weiss, Pam Grier, Snoop Dogg
Vidiots is dying to welcome back legendary director Ernest R. Dickerson for a special screening of his cult classic horror starring Snoop Dogg - Bones on glorious 35mm celluloid!
Death Becomes Her + Vidiots Halloween Party
- Thu, Oct 22
Director: Robert Zemeckis Run Time: 104 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1992
Starring: Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Ian Ogilvy, Isabella Rossellini, Meryl Streep
Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots annual Halloween Shindig! We'll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes and vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy Death Becomes Her, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!
A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Fri, Oct 23
Director: Wes Craven Run Time: 91 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1984
Starring: Amanda Wyss, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Robert Englund, Ronee Blakley
One, two... Freddy's coming for you!
Wes Craven's original nightmare and the start of a monstrous 20-year franchise, this first installment of Freddy remains the most terrifying of the series and is considered one of the best horror movies of all time.
Mimic
- Fri, Oct 23
Director: Guillermo del Toro Run Time: 105 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1997
Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Mira Sorvino
Don't bug out - we've got the creature feature your Friday night has been missing - a Guillermo del Toro giant mutant cockroach movie starring Mira Sorvino and international superstar Giancarlo Giannini!
The Shining on 35mm
- Sat, Oct 24
Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 144 min. Format: 35mm Film Rating: R Release Year: 1980
Starring: Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Philip Stone, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall
This Stephen King adaptation crawls with atmospheric dread from the opening scene to the closing credits, inhabiting a special place in the psyche of all those who have witnessed its bloody, psychotic mastery.
Def by Temptation
- Sat, Oct 24
Director: James Bond III Run Time: 95 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1990
Starring: Bill Nunn, James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Minnie Gentry, Samuel L. Jackson
One of the best films to be released on Troma's label, James Bond III's Def by Temptation is a smart, slick, and stylish tale of faith, temptation, and demons!
The Exorcist on 35mm
- Sun, Oct 25
Director: William Friedkin Run Time: 132 min. Format: 35mm Film Rating: R Release Year: 1973
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow
Grab your crucifix and hold your loved ones close as Vidiots delves into the depths of demonic horror on glorious celluloid!
Italo-Disco Horror Night – Argento’s Deep Red
- Tue, Oct 27
Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 127 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1975 Language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring: Daria Nicolodi, David Hemmings, Eros Pagni, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Get on your boogie shoes and join us for a night of sick tunes and even sicker horror when we crank up the Italo-Disco and slaughter the big screen with Dario Argento's gore-giously demented masterpiece Deep Red. With DJ Sindri spinning Italo-Disco tunes before and after the screening/screaming!
Ginger Snaps
- Wed, Oct 28
Director: John Fawcett Run Time: 108 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2000
Starring: Emily Perkins, Jesse Moss, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers
A teen horror for the true weirdos - Ginger Snaps is not only one of the best werewolf films of the new millennium, it's also one of its best Coming-of-Age classics as well!
Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts
- Thu, Oct 29
Run Time: 90 min. Format: 16mm Film
16mm Spookiness just in time for Halloween! A ghostly night of obscure, rare, goofy, and haunting short films and cartoons all on 16mm celluloid.
An American Werewolf in London
- Thu, Oct 29
Director: John Landis Run Time: 97 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1981
Starring: David Naughton, Don McKillop, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Rik Mayall
Surreal visions, fabulous practical special effects, and a grim sense of humor still keep this classic as fresh as it was 45 years ago!
The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Fri, Oct 30
Director: Henry Selick Run Time: 76 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1993
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Glenn Shadix, William Hickey
Get in the spooky spirit with a trip to the delightful nightmare world of Halloween Town with Jack Skellington and his gruesome band of ghoulfriends.
Practical Magic
- Fri, Oct 30
Director: Griffin Dunne Run Time: 104 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1998
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Goran Visnjic, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing
Witchcraft feels good in a place like this.
Audition
- Fri, Oct 30
Director: Takashi Miike Run Time: 115 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2000 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Ryo Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki
Steering away from jump scares and cheap gore and into avenues of absolute torture and terror, Takashi Miike's breakthrough nightmare is the kind of rare horror film that affects you viscerally and haunts you in your psyche.
Bride of Frankenstein
- Sat, Oct 31
Director: James Whale Run Time: 75 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1935
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Valerie Hobson
Openly queer film director James Whale's gothic masterpiece weaves the artistic style of German Expressionism, a distinctly camp sensibility, and a story of otherness that resonates throughout history.
Halloween
- Sat, Oct 31
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 91 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1978
Starring: Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
It wouldn't be Halloween without a visit from Michael Myers - the monster that made the holiday - stalking our big screen with masked terror in the slasher that started it all!
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Sat, Oct 31
Director: Tobe Hooper Run Time: 83 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1974
Starring: Allen Danziger, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Teri McMinn, William Vail
52 years ago Tobe Hooper set a new high-water mark for horror with this brutal and gruesome exercise in terror, and few films since have matched its levels of visceral torture.